This will be followed by detailed lectures on specific aspects of cancer cells, with emphasis on growth control and cell division, genome stability and aneuploidy, apoptosis, angiogenesis, tissue invasion and immortalisation.

The lecture series will end with a series of more specialised lectures on mouse and zebra fish models of cancer, cancer chemoprevention, cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment and anti-cancer drug development.

Learning

34 one-hour lectures

Assessment

Essay, 3,000 words (40%)

Two exams, three hours each (30% each)

Contact us

The University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester,
LE1 7RH,
United Kingdom